run out

VERB
  1. flow, run or fall out and become lost
    The wine spilled onto the table
    The milk spilled across the floor
  2. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
    At the end of the march, I pooped out
  3. become used up; be exhausted
    Our supplies finally ran out
  4. flow off gradually
    The rain water drains into this big vat
  5. leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
    The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas
    When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out
  6. prove insufficient
    The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
  7. exhaust the supply of
    We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting
  8. lose validity
    My passports expired last month
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How To Use run out In A Sentence

  • My constant fear is that we're going to run out of writers in Chicago, " said Mr. Griffith, 27, who in his spare time is a theater critic for The Chicago Reader, an alternative paper.
  • They were too cool to play an encore, or perhaps they had simply run out of songs. Times, Sunday Times
  • They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
  • I could continue this yo-yo description of euroland affairs were it not that I will run out of good news to juxtapose against the bad. Euroland Should Prepare for More Ups and Downs in Its Yo-Yo Economy
  • Or you could look into hydrogen because even though natural gas is in ample amounts … it will run out. Think Progress » Deficit Peacock Evan Bayh Hits ‘Far Left-Wing Blogs’ For Criticizing Obama’s Spending Freeze As Too ‘Austere’
  • Can't wait to see Ryan score the title clincher v Stoke in front of the Stretford End the week before he flies of to Madrid for the final. this is a big big game so I don't think he should start straight from injury, off the bench maybe .... you know give him a run out when we're 4-0 up: p Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
  • And the future, the value of residential, the developer of housing in the green again, we run out laugh uproariously .
  • Kristen would run out to get a blood test while I watched an online tutorial; she would pop Clomid while I conjured up the courage to give myself a shot. Times Two
  • Labour has not run out of radical steam, he says. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, it is easy to run out of superlatives for a gig as good as this and I defy anyone to emerge disappointed by what they have seen and heard - these guys are in danger of setting themselves some impossibly high standards.
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